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Showing posts with label Dirty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dirty. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Weird news - Finding vomit on your airline seat

In the service business, quick turnaround is a necessity for earning more money, but that sometimes clashes with service levels. I once had to take a train, and it was a turnaround from another train that was supposed to arrive some time earlier, be cleaned and then take on more passengers. It was late so it was probably decided to quickly just let it be used again without cleaning, and that was what happened. The problem was, the inside of the train was pretty dirty, one is used to see a train after there has been some amount of cleaning. Similarly, when you take a cinema hall or a flight, it is typically a quick turnaround. If you spill some popcorn or soda, do you stop to think about how quickly they would be able to clean it before the next set of customers arrive ?
Well, this gentlemen got to see the case when the seat was not cleaned and got a seat with vomit on it, and with not much of sympathies or action from the cabin crew (link to article):
A British Airways passenger was horrified to find his seat covered in what appeared to be vomit. Passenger Dave Gildea was travelling from London Heathrow airport to Seattle when he was assigned seat 64K. "I had upgraded to business class at the airport in London Heathrow and was assigned seats 64K," the 38-year-old told The Sun. "I didn't notice anything until about two hours into the British Airways flight when I popped down the foot stool so I could get some sleep and saw the vomit on the seat. "It was also splashed on the wall behind and the floor below, which I then noticed." However, Mr Gildea says that he when he told the cabin crew about it, they asked if he had been sick on the seat himself. "I went to the cabin crew and the attendants first response was 'was this here when you boarded?' but it was clear it was dried in," he says.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Weird research - ATM's as dirty as public loos

We normally believe a lot in what we can see, so when you look at public convenience, even if it seems totally clean and sparkling, you will always consider it dirty and a place to quickly go, do your thing, and leave. But other places seem clean, look clean, and so we consider those places as clean. Obviously, we cannot look at the places at a much deeper level, and truly determine whether these places are also clean, or do they also contain a lot of germs that can cause public illness. Would you be surprised if you knew that there are many places as clean as a public toilet, even the seemingly clean ATM (link to article):

The next time you take out money from an automated teller machine (ATM), make sure you either wear gloves or wash your hands. Cleanliness tests have revealed that cash machines are as dirty and carry the same germs as public toilets.
Health experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on a string of ATMs around Britain that are used by thousands of shoppers every day. They then took similar swabs from the seats of nearby public toilets and compared the bacteria under microscopes in a lab. The swabs were left to grow overnight and samples from both locations were found to contain pseudomonads and bacillus - bacteria known to cause sickness and diarrhoea, according to the Daily Mail.

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